Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Differing strongly in personality and political viewpoint, Nehru and Patel worked in harness with apparent smoothness until last September. Then their differences over the proper policy toward Pakistan and India's Moslem minority-Patel favored a tough line-led to an open struggle for control of the Congress Party. Patel won the first round, but in the end mutual dependence prompted Patel and Nehru to patch up their quarrels...
...rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport plane pulled out of Sinanju last week, one of Tunner's men noticed on the airfield 25 loaves of specially baked and blessed Moslem bread, the remnants of four tons flown in to supply the Turkish Brigade. The pilot carefully poured gasoline on the bread and set it afire before he departed. Said he: "I thought the Chinamen would like some toast...
...problem of pleasing many armies and many stomachs. F-rations, based mainly on rice, were needed in the Kumchon area where the Philippine Republic's 10th Combat Team was carrying out its first combat patrols against bypassed North Koreans. A new M-ration, which, in accordance with Moslem dietary laws, contains no pork, was being distributed to the 5,190-man Turkish brigade soon to join the Filipinos at Kumchon. Regular supplies of tea had to be sent far up Korea's west coast where British and Australian soldiers of the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade were battling their...
...political stage. Rajrishi Purushottamdas Tandon, 68, white-bearded and frail, had beaten candidates backed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the presidency of India's dominant Congress Party. Nehru stood for progress and Westernization (with important reservations). Tandon stood for the dim & distant past, for pressure on the Moslem minority, for a Hindu state (with no reservations whatever...
...more urgent importance than unlimited cow protection was Tandon's demand that the government put more pressure on the 40 million Moslems in India. He argued that the Moslem government of Pakistan would never stop persecuting its Hindu minority (12 million) until the Pakistanis were convinced that India would retaliate in kind...